[nflug] pulling computer name from network

[John Seth]

My Fedora Core 4 box isn't running at the moment, but everything and 
anything configuration related, especially in just about any distro is 
in the /etc directory.  In Slackware, along with a good many unix 
flavored systems, there's a file named /etc/HOSTNAME.  In Fedora and 
RedHat however, I believe you can find that info in /etc/sysconfig. 
Unfortunately (or fortunately) even behind my Linksys firewalls, I 
always set my linux boxes up with static IP's (usually 
192.168.1.0-192.168.1.100 are reserved for non-DHCP).  I would try using 
the 'grep' command to locate a file within that directory related to the 
hostname... From within the /etc/sysconfig dir, for example:  grep -ir 
"hostname" *

I wish I could help further...

  - Tony


Michael Getman wrote:
> I've checked the box that was pulling the computer name down ; the 
> ifcfg-eth0 file reads this:
>
> DEVICE=eth0
> BOOTPROTO=dhcp
> HWADDR=00:60:08:8F:A5:87
> ONBOOT=yes
> TYPE=Ethernet
>
> the DNS servers were filled in automatically.  Now that I have that 
> system back home it is reading for hostname "localhost.localdomain"
>
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